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Thirty-four passengers on the flight from London to Aberdeen have yet to be traced due to incomplete data.

Shielding residents in Perth and Kinross told to consider postal voting at Scottish election Enhanced hygiene measures will be in place for the Scottish Parliament vote on May 6 as well as for an Almond and Earn by-election on March 25 Updated Counting takes place at two Perth by-elections in November (Image: Perthshire Advertiser) Join thousands of others in getting the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox.Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe W...

Glasgow records 150 Covid cases overnight as Scots death toll surpasses 9500 Glasgow has recorded 150 additional coronavirus cases overnight. Across Scotland, there have been 543 new positive tests within the past 24 hours and 35 further Covid-related deaths. It brings the total amount of deaths linked to coronavirus in Scotland to 9580. Of these, the majority happened in hospital at 187, with 26 in care homes and 14 at home or in a non-institutional setting and one in another institu...

Almost 250 close contacts of those to have tested positive for the Brazilian variant of Covid-19 in Scotland have been traced.

BBC News Play video LIVE: BBC One coverage of Covid-19 briefingVideo LIVE: BBC One coverage of Covid-19 briefing Related Video and Audio Play video LIVE: BBC One coverage of Covid-19 briefing And well keep you signed in. Sign in or Register Got a TV Licence? You need one to watch live TV on any channel or device, and BBC programmes on iPlayer. It’s the law. Summary An enhanced contact tracing effort is under way after the Brazilian variant of Covid-19 was detected in Scotland Three Scottish...

SCOTLAND has recorded 386 positive coronavirus tests but no new deaths in the past 24 hours, Jeane Freeman said.

THERE is no reason to believe that the Brazilian strain of Covid-19 is in circulation in Scotland but efforts to “identify and break any possible…

The UK’s top medics agreed to the move but they warn transmission rates, deaths and the pressure on hospitals remains high.

England’s Professor Chris Whitty, Northern Ireland’s Dr Michael McBride, Scotland’s Dr Gregor Smith, Wales’s Dr Frank Atherton and NHS England’s Professor Stephen Powis announced the decision on Thursday following advice from the Joint Biosecurity Centre. They said health services across the four nations “remain under significant pressure with a high number of patients in hospital”, but thanks to the efforts of the public numbers are now “consistently declining, and the thre...

The risk of the NHS being overwhelmed within 21 days “has receded”.